If you are a professional, high-quality commercial landlord, thetext below is not for you. You recognize the roles of variousplayers in commercial real estate transactions and understand howto create balanced transactions while treating all partiesfairly. Because of this, among other factors, you are likelyincredibly successful, your tenants and their advisors enjoy solidbusiness relationships with you, you are profitable, and you arehappy! To you I say "Thank you!"

To those commercial landlords who completely misunderstand myrole as advisor, advocate, and representative only fortenants and other corporate occupants, to thoselandlords who dislike the fact that my sole objective is to protectthe interests of my clients, to those landlords who complain aboutpaying our commission and those who don't get that I don't work forthem...listen up! The term is "Tenant" Advisor, Tenant Rep,or Corporate Advisor, not landlord broker!

The situation is simple and clear...MY FIRM DOES NOT REPRESENTYOU AND WILL NOT BE SWAYED BY YOU! You cannot get us to backdown from you or negotiate less aggressively on our clients' behalfby offering us commission bonuses, opportunities to represent yourproperties, relationship opportunities with you, or by threats ofdelayed payment schedules or reduced compensation. We'renot interested nor affected by any of that! While thosetactics may have worked on some of your weaker local croniesin the past, it won't work with us!

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